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Thanks very much for sharing your precious experience! I really appreciate that you spending so much time answering this question. Besides, after reading your answers, I think I tend to prefer Brown now. ps: As far as I know, Brown seems to have a good interdisciplinary environment also.

Actually both are OK for me currently, but I'm not sure whether size of research group will become a problem in the future after I have some experience in research. Therefore, I think a current PHD student may be able to give me some useful advices.

That really helps. Thanks very much! I also checked personal pages of PHD students listed in Brown CS department website, and I found that the proportion of PHD students who were Master students in Brown before is indeed relatively high. I still have another doubt. As I have received master admissions from Brown and UPenn (the program in UPenn is Robotics), I need to make a decision between them soon. I'm interested in computer vision and my major concern now is that the size of CV group in Brown is relatively smaller than that of UPenn. For a PHD student, how do you think of the importance of research group size he is in? Besides, do you have any opinions about these two programs? Thanks for your time again!

I have also applied to the Masters program at the CS department in Brown, and was admitted recently. As I plan to apply for PHD afterwards, I'm wondering how many graduated CS master students in Brown are admitted as Brown PHD students each year? Thanks a lot!